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ANNCast - Hey, man, there's a Beveridge here!

Hey, I got mentioned on ANNcast (re: the wife comment). I feel vindicated somehow.

Pandadice wrote:

we just need a modern Ralph Bakshi. He was an animated film auteur, and strong pushes of the "animation isn't just for kids" ideal back in like the 60-70s. and he made the first animated x-rated film. There's also Don Bluth, another pretty notable animated film auteur a bit later than Bakshi. He has tons of amazing works to his name.

Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth aren't really the first directors I would think when talking about good animated movies although they both have a very recognizable style. The best "western" animation since the 60's to the early 90's was mostly made in soviet Russia. The animation artists in the USSR had a relative freedom because there wasn't as big concerns for the profit as in the USA and animation was short or feature films, not extremely low budget television series.

It's not just female characters, we see the same thing with Sanji from One Piece towards Nami, Vivi, or any attractive woman in the show really.

What's more, it's the ol' double standard. A man displaying the same characteristics wouldn't be denigrated as a "bitch," or any other pejorative associated with strong/commanding women; granted, the Tsundere blows the normal range of human emotions to the absolute extremes of silliness for the sake of comedy (among other reasons).

Discounting the Tsundere archetype as a comedy gag

Er, can't speak for men, but I have noticed that there's really not much to speak of in the way of hentai manga. I think RightStuf had a sale a month or so ago, but other than that... Yeah, very much below the radar. I'll be curious to hear the male perspective on that.

Zac are both movie buffs, right? Have either (or both) of you seen The Thin Man, with William Powell and Myrna Loy? That's the kind of relationship Lawrence and Holo have, except it's a bit more focused on romance, and the verbal sparring is a few steps below.

And related to Aeon Flux, another fantastic American TV animated drama (with nary an anime influence to be found!) was another MTV show, The Maxx. Out now on DVD! (FINALLY)

neocloud9 wrote:

Er, can't speak for men, but I have noticed that there's really not much to speak of in the way of hentai manga. I think RightStuf had a sale a month or so ago, but other than that... Yeah, very much below the radar. I'll be curious to hear the male perspective on that.

Oh, there's plenty of hentai manga out there. Two of the bigger publishers are Icarus Publishing and Eros Comix. I'd link to them but they're (naturally ) waaaay NSFW, but hey, you've got Google, right?

CareyGrant wrote:

What's more, it's the ol' double standard. A man displaying the same characteristics wouldn't be denigrated as a "bitch," or any other pejorative associated with strong/commanding women; granted, the tsundere blows the normal range of human emotions to the absolute extremes of silliness for the sake of comedy (among other reasons).

reverse sexism is silly <.<

jgreen wrote:

The Maxx. Out now on DVD! (FINALLY)

Do you have that yet? I'm interested, but I would like to know a lot more about the quality first. I still have my old VHS copies off the TV, but I have the small problem of no longer owning a VCR.

varmintx wrote:

jgreen wrote: The Maxx. Out now on DVD! (FINALLY) Do you have that yet? I'm interested, but I would like to know a lot more about the quality first. I still have my old VHS copies off the TV, but I have the small problem of no longer owning a VCR.

Nope, I haven't caved yet. This is one of those weird releases where they actually burn the series to-order on a DVD-R, and while I don't know anyone who bought The Maxx specifically, the quality is apparently fine. The big selling point for this DVD release for me is that it contains the entire series...the version MTV sold on VHS back in the day was recut into a single 100 minute movie, which cut out an entire episode of the show. So having that restored will be awesome.

IA (Justin can speak more about that) did that with their releases of Cat's Eye, Nobody's Boy Remi and Super Dimension Century Orguss, and yes, I should order that Maxx DVD soon

I'm am f******g baffled why that show has any popularity...at all. It's not bad. It's not a bad by any stretch, but it's a really f******g weird idea a for a show.

I meant to do that

Oh and by the way, people who don't like Spongebob are just idiots who can't look past the surface. .....Apparently most people are two dumb to see past the surface level fish based appearance.

I don't get all the 'Alita couldn't have been done before'. You might not like the clip below but I think it's nearly 10years old(I think it was done in Shade 3D).

I swear, if you propped a box up with a stick and baited it with irony, you'd catch me every time.

Clearly it's actually an immensely complex character piece about the struggles of a socially inept boy with a rare genetic disorder requiring special orthopedic pants and his troubled relationship with his mentally handicapped neighbor/lover. In it's portrayal of it's two leading characters, Spongebob and Squidward, it juxtaposes the struggle of children with the pressure to conform with the struggle of adults to come to terms with their failure to realize their dreams to form a bitingly satirical allegory of the conventional suburban life.